98 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Forty- two hours and fifty-one minutes (42 hrs. 51 mins.), were flown on 

 actual suppression duty. Machines were requisitioned on fourteen occasions. 

 Each flight was carried out to schedule as per the instructions of the District 

 Forester or Inspector concerned 



Three hundred and sixty-four hours and thirty-five minutes (364 hrs. 35 mins.) 

 were flown on sketching and aerial survey. Fifteen hundred square miles of 

 aerial type survey was accomplished. These machines were available for sketch- 

 ing only when the fire hazard permitted 



Forty-seven hours and thirty minutes (47 hrs. 30 mins.) were flown on 

 photographic survey; An area of seven hundred and fifty square miles was 

 photographed. Machines were allotted to this operation late in the season, and 

 this, combined with the poor weather conditions prevailing, greatly curtailed the 

 photographic programme. 



Seventy-four hours and thirty minutes (74 hrs. 30 mins.), were flown on 

 instruction. Eighteen (18) applicant pilots were tested, twelve (12) of whom 

 demonstrated their flying ability sufficiently to justify further instruction. 

 Eleven pilots with no previous experience on flying boats, graduated from the 

 Provincial Air Service School of Instruction, and passed the necessary R.C.A.F. 

 regulations and tests. One Junior B pilot is still under instruction at the present 

 time, fulfilling the requirements with regard to practical knowledge of engines 

 and aircraft. 



Sixty-seven hours and thirty-seven minutes (67 hrs. 37 mins.) were flown 

 for test purposes under the following headings: engine tests, machine tests, 

 wireless tests, weather reports and test. 



Three hundred and ninety hours and forty-two minutes (390 hrs. 42 mins.) 

 were flown on cross-country. This includes all flights participated in from 

 Sudbury to the various operating bases and return to Sault Ste. Marie. It also 

 includes hours flown in looking for machines which had not reported to their 

 respective bases on schedule time, taking in spares and other general assistance 

 in connection with forced landings 



The service rendered to the Department of Health in the transportation of 

 Doctor Cockburn converted what is usually a seven-day journey (in addition 

 to delays generally encountered with a lady travelling, weather conditions, etc.), 

 into a short air trip of but a few hours 



Reference is made to the hours requisitioned by the Forestry Branch, 

 totalling 2,291 hours and 43 minutes. This time includes transportation to and 

 from the bases and omits all flying spent on tests, instruction, special flights, and 

 cross-country, in connection with forced landings and change of engines. 



With reference to the number of hours flown by machines on operations, 

 in all two thousand five hundred and ninety-seven hours (2,597) wfere flown. 



The difference between the total number of hours flown by the machines, 

 and the total number of hours run by the engines, is accounted for by cross- 

 country engine flying time on delivery from Three Rivers to Sudbury, and bench 

 tests. 



In conclusion, I take great pleasure in commending every member of the 

 Provincial Air Service for their devotion to duty at all times. During serious 

 fire hazards and in times of stress, the personnel worked of their own accord from 

 daylight to dark. On several occasions during storms they were up at all hours 

 of the night safeguarding the machines, often at considerable risk to themselves. 



It is with very sincere regret that in this, my first annual report, I have to 

 include reference to the sad accident which occurred in the western half of the 

 Province, on August 16th, 1924. 



